I am on long-term administrative leave from my tenured position as Associate Professor of Anglophone Literature at Växjö University while I hold my current appointment as Research Fellow in American Literature at Uppsala University. While the current post is a research-intensive position, it also entails teaching and thesis advisement at the masters and doctoral levels of study; while resident in the English Department over the next few years I also expect to lead occasional courses in creative writing and green literary/cultural studies at the advanced undergraduate level.

My own research on literature falls predominantly within the field of ecocriticism (i.e., the study of literature in relation to the environment). Not a unified theory so much as a nexus of critical-discursive inquiries, ecocriticism engages a spectrum of issues and areas of focus implicated in what we might describe as the environmental turn in the political, social, economic and cultural spheres, particularly as these topics and questions are engaged in literary works. My ecocritical research entails multiple theoretical perspectives, methodological approaches and discursive/analytical focuses, including reception theory, narratology, cultural studies and New Historicism. My ongoing projects explore how various contemporary discourses (especially the literary): 1) conceive of environmental issues and relate such conceptions to a wider public sphere; 2) consider/highlight the implications of competing conceptions of nature and environment; 3) give cultural expression to prominent debates/position-staking concerning the impacts of human conduct on the non-human natural world; and 4) address questions relating to environmental crisis from various philosophical/socio-political angles.

Since 2008 I have headed up the Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies (NIES). The network consists of researchers whose work addresses environmental questions from numerous disciplinary angles; the fields of literature, history, ethnology, philosophy, art history, landscape architecture and cultural studies are represented among others in the network. Since its founding in 2007 NIES has grown from a group of a dozen researchers based at nine universities in three Nordic countries to its present-day constituency of 60+ researchers based at more than 30 universities in all four Nordic countries (plus six non-Nordic countries), with anchoring centers at Uppsala University, the University of Oslo, the University of Southern Denmark—Odense and the University of Turku. From 2010 to 2013 NIES will sponsor not less than 12 Nordic research colloquia and three larger international conferences made possible through funding from Nordforsk. Collectively these events are expected to yield several published research anthologies and special issues of scholarly journals devoted to a range of questions central to the network’s primary spheres of interest: broadly speaking, environmental integrity, stability and sustainability as illumined at the intersection of culture and nature. Through the Nordforsk funding period (2010-2013) I will continue in my present capacity as Project Leader/Coordinator of NIES.

UNIVERSITY TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Full-time Positions Held

• Research Fellow in American Literature, Department of English, Uppsala University, 15 December 2008- .
• Senior Lecturer in English (with tenure), specialization in American literature and culture, Linnaeus University (formerly Växjö University), 1 January 2010- .
Official leave of absence during research appointment at Uppsala University, 2008-2013.
• Senior Lecturer in English (with tenure), specializations in American literature and culture, Växjö University, 1 Jan 2005-2009.
• Lecturer in English, Language Unit, KTH: The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 2001-2004.
• Program Fellow, New York State Writers Institute, Albany, NY, 1998-2001.
• Foreign Lecturer, Department of English, Stockholm University, 1993-98.

Courses Taught

Nature Writing, Ecoliterature & Ecocriticism, British & American Poetry, Literary Modernism, Creative Writing (Fiction, Poetry, Screenwriting, Literary Translation & Literary Adaptation), Critical Approaches to Cinema, Science Fiction & the Technological Revolution, American Culture & Society, and Survey of British & American literature, as well as thesis supervision in literature at the undergraduate, masters & doctoral levels.

ACADEMIC DEGREES EARNED

• Doctor of Philosophy, English, University at Albany, State University of New York, 18 May 2003.
Thesis: "Faces of Thoreau in American Literature" (Supervisors: Ronald Bosco, Judith Fetterley & Judith Johnson)
• Master of Fine Arts, Creative Writing (English), The American University, Washington, DC, 12 May 1991.
Thesis: "Horse on Fire – tall and small tales from Webb Mills" (Supervisors: Alice McDermott, Henry Taylor & Richard McCann)
• Bachelor of Arts, English, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, 17 May 1987.

PUBLICATIONS

Criticism

• "The Problem of Fiction in Ecocriticism." In The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism (Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK), forthcoming in 2011, 20 ms pp.
• "Wallace Stegner" (in press). In The Blackwell Encyclopedia of 20th Century American Fiction (Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK), 4 pp, forthcoming in 2010.
• "The Rise of American Ecoliterature." In American Studies in Scandinavia Vol. 39 No. 2 (Fall 2007), 41-58.
• "'The Life Excited': Faces of Thoreau in Walden." In Henry David Thoreau, updated edition, Bloom’s Modern Critical Views Series, Harold Bloom, ed. (Chelsea House: New York, 2007), 197-218.
• "Om Thoreaus Walden" (peer review not applicable), co-authored with Henrik Otterberg. In Henry David Thoreau. Walden. Trans. Peter Handberg (Stockholm: Natur & kultur, 2006), 398-421.
• "'Invading Walden' Part II: The Thoreauvian Dilemmas of Wallace Stegner's On a Darkling Plain." In Thoreau Society Bulletin 252, 2005 1-7.
• "'Invading Walden' Part I: An Exchange between Walter Harding and Wallace Stegner." In Thoreau Society Bulletin 251, 2005 1-7.
• "'The Life Excited': Faces of Thoreau in Walden." In The Concord Saunterer, New Series 12, Concord: The Thoreau Society, 2005, 341-360.
• "Ken Kesey: Wild in America." In Writers Online 5:2, New York State Writers Institute, Albany, NY, 2001.
• "Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five: Beyond Science Fiction." In Writers Online 5:2, New York State Writers Institute, Albany, NY, 2001.
• "Jayne Anne Phillips' Motherkind." In Writers Online 4:2, New York State Writers Institute, Albany, NY, 2000.
• "Working the Angles: The Novels of Elmore Leonard." In Writers Online 4:2, New York State Writers Institute, Albany, NY, 2000.
• "The Making of History: Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient." In Writers Online 4:2, New York State Writers Institute, Albany, NY, 2000.
• "Donald Hall: A Review of His Life and Writings." In Writers Online 4:1, New York State Writers Institute, Albany, NY, 1999.
• "Annie Proulx's Close Range." In Writers Online 4:1, New York State Writers Institute, Albany, NY, 1999.
• "Who is Hayden Carruth?" In Writers Online 3:2, New York State Writers Institute, Albany, NY, 1999.
• "Dreaming in Cuban: The Politics of Motherhood" (on Cuban-American novelist Cristina Garcia). In Writers Online 3:2, New York State Writers Institute, Albany, NY, 1999.
• "History and Imagination: The Works of Derek Walcott." In Writers Online 3:1, New York State Writers Institute, Albany, NY, 1998.
• "Ernesto Cardenal." In Writers Online 3:1, New York State Writers Institute, Albany, NY, 1998.
• "Shopping Cart Soldiers: Surviving the post-traumatic Inferno" (on Scottish novelist John Mulligan). In Writers Online 3:1, New York State Writers Institute, Albany, NY, 1998.
• Review of Cincinnati Kid in Film Notes (a publication of the New York State Writers Institute), Albany, NY, 1998.

Papers in Proceedings to Pedagogical Forums / Disciplinary Conferences

• "The Network Approach To Program Building: Cooperative Curriculum Development and Joint-Program Design among University English Departments in Sweden" (not peer-reviewed), in Proceedings of the Conference Building Bridges: National Forum on English Studies in Swedish Higher Education, Tällberg, Dalarna, 25-27 April 2007, 46-52.
• "Learning through English in Swedish Professional Education," in Integrating Content & Language: Meeting the Challenge of a Multilingual Higher Education, edited by Robert Wilkinson (Universitair Pers Maastricht: Maastricht, Netherlands, 2004), 137-46.

Creative Writing

Original Fiction
• "The Philosopher," in Writing Humor: Creativity and the Comic Mind, Rishel (ed.). (Ohio: Wayne State University Press, 2002) 144-47.
• "Lessons," in Sirens, Buscall, J. (ed.). (Stockholm: Stockholm University, 2001) 52-65 (not peer reviewed).
• "The Desert Never Ends," Prism International 33:2, Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia, 1995, 69-89.
• "Ontario," Columbia: A Magazine of Poetry & Prose 22. New York: Columbia University, 1993, 100-114.
• "Buffalo Billy, Cochise the Eighth and the year of many things," Witness 7:2. Farmington Hills, MI: Oakland CC, 1993, 81-91.
• "Horse on Fire," Folio. Washington, DC: American University, 1993, 62-69.
• Selected short stories and vignettes ("Spawn of Satan," "Icelandic Outlaws," "Walking the Woods," "Mahalco Joe," and "Chuckling Death"), Folio. Washington, DC: American University, 1991, 42-60.
• "Bring out the Thunder," Columbia: A Magazine of Poetry & Prose 15. New York: Columbia University, 1990, 9-36.

Literary Translations
• Dagerman, Dan Levy, producer, director and screenwriter, co-producer Lo Dagerman. The Games of Night. Film adaptation of "Nattens lekar" by Stig Dagerman, as translated into English by Steven Hartman, 2007.
• Florin, Magnus (translated by Steven Hartman). "Time Capsules," Memento Metropolis. Stockholm, Arvinius Förlag, 1998, 262-69.
• Dagerman, Stig (translated by Steven Hartman). "The Surprise," Southern California Anthology 8. Los Angeles, CA: University of Southern California, 1996, 60-66.
• Dagerman, Stig (translated by Steven Hartman). "Men of Character," Southern Review 32:1. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University, 1996, 59-79.
• Dagerman, Stig (translated by Steven Hartman). "Salted Meat and Cucumber," Prism International 34:2. Vancouver, British Columbia: University of British Columbia, 1996, 54-60.
• Nilson, Peter (translated by Steven Hartman). "Winged Men and Flying Ships," Georgia Review, 50:2. Athens, GA: University of Georgia, 1996, 267-296.
• Dagerman, Stig (translated by Steven Hartman). "Sleet," Confrontation 54/55. New York: Long Island University, 1994, 53-62.
• Dagerman, Stig (translated by Steven Hartman). "The Games of Night," Black Warrior Review 20:2. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama, 1994, 107-17.
• Dagerman, Stig (translated by Steven Hartman). "In Grandmother's House," Quarterly West 38. Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah, 1994, 160-67.
• Dagerman, Stig (translated by Steven Hartman with Lo Dagerman). "To Kill a Child," Grand Street 42. New York, 1992, 96-100.

Song Lyrics
• "No One Can Reinvent the World" (after Stig Dagerman’s "Jorden kan man inte göra om"), to appear on forthcoming album by The Real Group.
• Hartman, Steven & Katarina Henrysson. "A Little Kindness." On The Real Group, The Real Album, Stockholm: Lionheart, 2010.
• Hartman, Steven & Katarina Henrysson. "Given." On The Real Group, In the Middle of Life, Stockholm: Virgin Records, 2005.
• Hartman, Steven & Margareta Jalkéus. "My Hidden World." On The Real Group, In the Middle of Life, Stockholm: Virgin Records, 2005.
• Hartman, Steven & Anders Edenroth, "A Life for Me," English adaptation of “Ett Liv för mig” by Anders Edenroth. On The Real Group, In the Middle of Life, international releases, Korea: Feel Music, Japan: Spice of Life, 2005.
• Jalkéus, Margareta. "Spring Is Coming." Steven Hartman, creative lyrical consultant (collaborating writer). On The Real Group, In the Middle of Life, Stockholm: Virgin Records, 2005.
• Karlsson, Peder. "Are You Coming To Me?" Steven Hartman, creative lyrical consultant (collaborating writer). On The Real Group, In the Middle of Life, Stockholm: Virgin Records, 2005.
• Karlsson, Peder "A Quiet Song." Steven Hartman, creative lyrical consultant (collaborating writer). On The Real Group, In the Middle of Life, Stockholm: Virgin Records, 2005.

Anthologies Edited

• Hartman, Steven & Marion Lomax, eds. Out of the Blue: Work from the 1998 Creative Writing Course in English at Stockholm University, (including "Afterword," pp. 112-121), Stockholm Papers in English Literature & Linguistics 10, Stockholm University, 1998.
• Hartman, Steven & Matthew Klam, eds. Lonely Hour: Work from the 1997 Creative Writing Course in English at Stockholm University, (including "Introduction," pp. 6-9), Stockholm Papers in English Literature & Linguistics 9, Stockholm University, 1997.
• Hartman, Steven & Robert Dana, eds. Chiaroscuro: Work from the 1996 Creative Writing Course in English at Stockholm University, (including "Afterword," pp. 136-138), Stockholm Papers in English Literature & Linguistics 8, Stockholm University, 1996.
• Hartman, Steven & Tim Pears, eds. Shake Well (Before Opening): Work from Stockholm University's 1995 Creative Writing Course in English, (including "Editors' Comments," pp. 6-11), Stockholm Papers in English Literature & Linguistics 7, Stockholm University, 1995.

Books in Preparation (multiple categories)

• Hartman, Steven, ed. Counter Nature(s), anthology of research essays forthcoming from Rodopi (Amsterdam & New York) in 2011.
• Dagerman, Stig. To Kill a Child: Selected Stories, translated from the Swedish by Steven Hartman, Verba Mundi series, David R. Godine, Publisher (Boston, MA), forthcoming in 2011.
• Hartman, Steven, Anna Storm & Sverker Sörlin, eds. Motnatur, anthology of research essays in Swedish planned for publication with a major commercial publisher in 2012.
• Dagerman, Stig. Wedding Worries, translated from the Swedish by Jenny Hartman & Steven Hartman, Verba Mundi series, David R. Godine, Publisher (Boston, MA), forthcoming in 2013.
• Mapping Environmental Consciousness in Modern American Literature, research monograph to be submitted for publication in 2013.

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION

(selected since 2004)

Contributions to International Conferences and Symposia

• Chair and moderator, workshop session on “Nature, Landscape and the City,” Green Oslo conference, BI Norwegian School of Management, Oslo, Norway, 7-8 June 2010.
• Chair and moderator, workshop session “What is Green Urbanism?” Green Oslo conference, BI Norwegian School of Management, Oslo, Norway, 7-8 June 2010.
• Principal Organizer and Convener, Counter Nature(s): Revising Nature in an Era of Environmental Crisis, Uppsala University, 20-22 November 2009.
• "'In a way to kill old people': Thoreau, Progress and the 1960s Counterculture," paper delivered at international research symposium Thoreauvian Modernities, Université de Lyon, Ecole Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines, 15 May 2009.
• Chair and moderator, “Looking Back and Looking Ahead at American Studies in the Nordic Countries,” Revitalizing American Studies: Who? Where? How?: A symposium in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Chair of American Literature at Uppsala University, Uppsala University, 26 September 2008.
• "A Lifelong Critique of American Rootlessness: the Centerpiece of Wallace Stegner's Literary Environmentalism," paper delivered at session on Nature Representation and the Geo-Environmental Development of the USA, biennial conference of the European Association for American Studies, Oslo, Norway, 10 May 2008.
• Co-organizer and Chair (with Mark Luccarelli), double session on Nature Representation and the Geo-Environmental Development of the USA, biennial conference of the European Association for American Studies, Oslo, Norway, 10-11 May 2008.
• "'Cadaverous triumph': the 'peaceable revolution' in Melville's 'Bartleby, the Scrivener'," paper delivered at conference Why Melville Matters Now, Albany Academy, Albany, NY, USA, 17 November 2006.
• "Reexamining the American Nature Writing Tradition: a contrastive look at Thomas Lyon's taxonomy of nature writing and Lawrence Buell's paradigm for environmental literature," paper delivered at conference "This Incomparable Lande"? Writing and Thinking about Nature and American Culture in a Comparative Perspective, University of Oslo, Norway, 30 September 2006.
• "'Civil Disobedience' and Thoreau's 'Utopia of One'," paper delivered session on Concord & Dissent, biennial conference of the Nordic Association of American Studies, Växjö University, 27 May 2005.
• Organizer and Chair, two-part session on Concord & Dissent, biennial conference of the Nordic Association of American Studies, Växjö University, 27 May 2005.
• "The Posthumous Lives of Henry David Thoreau," paper delivered at jubilee symposium 150 Years of Walden: A Re-examination of Henry David Thoreau's Masterwork, Department of English, Uppsala University, 20 November 2004.
• "The Reception of Thoreau's Walden in Sweden," paper delivered as member of international panel on “Walden in the Global Community,” Annual Gathering of the Thoreau Society, special 150 year jubilee conference Walden: Of its Time, For Our Time, Concord, Massachusetts USA, 9 July 2004.

GRANTS & AWARDS

Research Grants

• 3-year Nordforsk Researcher Network Grant for the Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies (NIES), 2010-2013. Project Leader /Network Coordinator: Steven Hartman.
• Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation) Research Initiation Grant (forskningsinitieringsmedel) for organization of international conference Counter Nature(s): Revising Nature in an Era of Environmental Crisis, Uppsala University, 20-22 November 2009. Project leader: Steven Hartman.
• SALT supplementary funding grant for arrangement of international research conference Counter Nature(s): Revising Nature in an Era of Environmental Crisis, Uppsala University, 20-22 November 2009. Project leader: Steven Hartman.
• 4-year Vetenskapsrådet (Swedish Research Council) grant for appointment as research fellow ('anställning som forskarassistent'), December 2008-December 2012; project: "Pathways to Sustainability: Mapping Environmental Consciousness in Modern American Literature."
• Faculty Enrichment Program grant, Government of Canada Ministry of Cultural Affairs, for immersion study of contemporary Canadian fiction, 2006.
• Thoreau Society Research Fellowship, The Thoreau Society, USA, 2004-2005.
• Wenner-Gren Stiftelserna Research Travel Grant to USA to present at Thoreau Society conference celebrating the 150-anniversary of the original publication of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, July 2004.
• Fulbright Research Fellowship (covering travel and living costs for one year as visiting researcher), Department of Comparative Literature, Uppsala University, 1991-92.

Literary Awards & Honors

• Sveriges författarfond (Swedish Authors’ Fund) literary translation grant for translation of novel Wedding Worries (Bröllopsbesvär) by Stig Dagerman, 2010.
• Thayer Fellowship in the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts & SUNY, for The Desert Never Ends and other stories by Steven Hartman, 2001.
• Pushcart Prize nomination by the editors of the literary journal Witness story "Buffalo Billy," 1993.
• Columbia University Translation Center Awards Honorable Mention, annual prize for outstanding works of literary translation from any language into English, for selected stories of Stig Dagerman, 1993.
• Pushcart Prize nomination by the editors of the literary journal Folio for story "Mahalco Joe," 1991.
• National Semi-Finalist, American Writers’ Guild Fellowship in Screenwriting, for feature-length screenplay "Saints of an Age," 1991.
• Myra Sklarew Award for Creative Writing for outstanding MFA thesis "Horse on Fire," The American University, 1991.
• Folio Magazine Fiction Prize, for story and vignette sequence "Horse on Fire," 1991.
• Edward W. Moses Fiction Award, University of Southern California, for story cycle "Bring out the Thunder," 1990.
• National Semi-Finalist, Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting, for feature-length screenplay "Saints of an Age," 1990.

MEMBERSHIP IN RESEARCH NETWORKS, LEARNED SOCIETIES & PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

• Founding member and Project Leader/Coordinator (2008-2013), the Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies (NIES).
• Member in good standing, Swedish Association for American Studies.
• Member in good standing, The Thoreau Society.
• Member in good standing, Swedish-English Literary Translators’ Association.
• Member, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), 2002-2004.
• Member, Association of Writers and Writing Programs, 1989-2003.